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What's the best way to tell my partner we're pregnant?

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I just found out I'm pregnant and I'm looking for fun ways to tell my partner. With our first, I taped the pregnancy test to a baby name book and gift-wrapped it! Have any good ideas on creative ways to tell your partner that you're pregnant?

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I just dropped my husband off at the airport. He was leaving for the weekend. On the 3 hour drive home symptoms hit me like a ton of bricks. I knew I was pregnant. I tested when I got home and got my bfp for #3. I couldn't wait three days for him to get home to tell him. I had a big sister shirt for our daughter. I skyped with my husband while our daughter was wearing the shirt. He said, "huh-uh. What's that? Really?!" all while fighting back tears. I loved his face when he read it.

We have a unique last name that always gets mispronounced as Mustang so that has been a family nickname for generations. I custom ordered a onesie that says "baby mustang" and put it in a small box that looked like it was shipped to the house. I printed "congratulations" real big on a piece of paper and placed it in the box on top. Sealed it up with a shipping label to look like it was a package for him and told him he had a package. He was so confused until he saw the onesie and saw me crying. It was perfect!

We're putting an addition on our house, so I hid the video camera, turned it on when i heard him get home from work then called him into the living room because I had some questions about the drawings. I asked him about the garage, then flipped to the page of the upstairs floor plan and asked which one was going to be the baby's room. He pointed to a room and said probably this one (thinking I was talking hypothetically) then I asked him if that's where baby was going to be in February. He was frozen for 2 or 3 seconds, looked at me smiled and said really? Really?
Not entirely the reaction I was hoping for, but still a pretty cool video, I'll edit it later and we can share it with friends!

We are trying to conceive and I hopefully I get a positive result back from my doctor soon! But when I do find out I plan on buying both pink and blue balloons and placing them in a line to where we want the nursery to be. I will be inside holding a sign saying under construction! He works as a foreman for construction sites so he is always using that term!!

My husband and I had just gotten home when I told him that I thought I had left my phone in the car. I snuck out there and quickly applied three of those family stick figure stickers to the back (a mom, dad, and baby), and a "baby on board" sticker. Then I went back to the apartment trying to seems all frantic and told him, "Babe, I think somebody messed with the car!" He freaked out and followed me outside. When he saw the stickers he looked really confused, but once he saw me smiling at him it clicked. He was so excited! Picked me up and spun me around while yelling with excitement. I had thought ahead and asked one of our neighbors to film it for me. It was perfect!

My husband and I made our pregnancy announcement to our family at 8 weeks. We tried to be creative with the announcement so we did it two different ways:
1. We bought a few albums (for each family member) and on the first page we added the ultrasound photo along with the announcement "Baby Salazar arriving October 2014"
2. We printed the ultra sound photo and the announcement (double-sided) and rolled it up into a scroll and stuffed it into a balloon for family members to pop it and see the surprise inside.
Lastly, we recorded everyone's reaction and made a compilation video to share with friends and family on Facebook. It was a lot of work, but SOOOO worth it. Here is the link below for our final result!
http://youtu.be/l3emd_wWDbM

I told my fiance that I would tape the pregnancy test to a boy and girl stuffed animal. also get a plan white shirt and get put on it I can't wait to meet you daddy and if it's before his birthday that would be the best birthday present ever

About a month after my husband and I got married my mom bought a monkey bib (knowing that I love monkeys and lions and stuff like that) she gave it to me I was so excited and I loved it. It was in a brown paper bag and I sat it on the coffee table not thinking about it. (we are not pregnant yet) he came home and sat on the couch as I was making dinner he was talking to me and he said "what's this babe?" I smiled and said my mom got it for us. he opened it and the apartment went silent I swear his heart stopped he looked at me with surprise and shock and then he instantly turned to fear and excitement and yelled are we pregnant!? I started laughing and he sadly said no I have never seen him so upset about something. We are trying to get pregnant now but so far no luck. hopefully soon!

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